[Gllug] [Gllugadmin] South England LUG meeting at Hursley in the spring of 2010?

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Oct 15 10:31:37 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:23:15AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 10/15/2009 06:17 AM, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> >> But remember there's more to Linux than Ubuntu.
> >
> > Not in my recent experience!  Almost every Linux desktop install I've
> > seen lately has been Ubuntu (and the more adventurous ones use Mint!).
> 
> I was at a hosting conf in the US last week, of about 5o+ Linux powered 
> laptops, the distro's of choice were by far opensuse and fedora. The 
> only ubuntu install I saw there was someone running it on an old 13" 
> powerpc ibook.
> 
> Not very scientific - but i think it depends a lot on where you look.

I think that it also depends on who you ask. If you look at what
experienced Linux people use you are likely to find what you did ...
they have been using Linux for years and will stick with what they know.

Newer people are more likely to use something like Ubuntu or Linux mint.

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